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Interpreting Circle Graphs
What does this pie chart mean? Once scholars can analyze a circle graph on a basic level (i.e. "Most people prefer cats"), it's time to delve deeper into it. They examine two graphs here, and are given the total number of participants...
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States of Matter
Water, one of the basic needs of humans, is found in all three states of matter on Earth; no other planet—that we know of—possesses this quality. Here is a unit that allows learners to explore through experimentation what it...
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A Lesson in Chaos for Middle School Students
Students create a chaotic system. They display a basic knowledge of the system and are able to recognize it. The students form a hypothesis about a chaotic system and theorize the cause and effect.
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A Safe Place For My Money
Middle schoolers examine the roles of different types of financial institutions. They also identify the basic accounts found at the institutions. They ask questions to representatives that come and speak to the class.
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ESL Matching- Prepositions- The Basics
In this ESL prepositions matching worksheet, students match a clip art picture of a soccer ball in different positions in relation to a box. They match the picture to the word that best describes the ball's position such as over, under,...
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Playing the Stock Market
Students analyze how the performance of a company affects its stock value resulting in profits or losses. They simulate buying stock and earning dividends.
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Word Wall Words
Young scholars use the basic required 200 words by sight in sentences of three to six words, use the words to play bingo and rhyming word activity.
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Teaching Respect
Students discuss what it means to respect others and have a continual discussion throughout the year. In this respect lesson plan, students role play respecting each other.
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Pancake Express
Students participate in a variety of manipulative skills in cross-curricular activities (dramatic play, reading, problem solving) to improve creativity and health education.
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Lesson 28: Introduction to Illinois Government
Fourth graders research and compare the United States and Illinois Governments. They play the game Who Wans To Be A Millionaire.
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Cell Organelles
High schoolers explore biology by researching living cells. In this living organism lesson, students participate in a role-playing activity in which all the high schoolers in class form one plant cell by portraying specific parts of a...
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Communication 5: Defending Your Rights
Students role play situations where they communicate and defend themselves. In this communication lesson plan, students defend their rights by being assertive.
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Cell Reviews
Students draw cells, make a cell, and list organelles in plant and animal cells. In this cells lesson plan, students create edible cells.
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Identifying Propaganda Techniques
In this propaganda techniques worksheet, learners write the technique next to the sentence read by a candidate. Students complete 12 problems.
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Word Track Games
In this word tracking worksheet, students use dice with words on it and when their word comes up they get to move 1 square across a game board. Students play this in groups of 3.
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Twelfth Night: Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 1
High schoolers create skits based on pairs of words. In this Twelfth Night lesson plan, students create a cluster map in which they brainstorm a dialogue/scene based on their word pair. High schoolers perform and record their scenes...
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Buckets of Bucks for World Hunger
Students participate in a nonprofit organization activity for hunger outreach problems. For this service project lesson, students practice counting coins, complete a service project for a hunger outreach, discuss nutrition and healthy...
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Be Kind to our Earth
Students make a list of ideas on ways we can take care of our Earth and complete a class project planning sheet where they problem solve to help save the Earth. In this Earth lesson plan, students also play a conservation charades game.
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Vocabulary Worksheets Basic Grammar 3rd Edition Chapter 8: Expressing Past Times Part One
For this past tense verbs worksheet, students fill in 11 blanks by using the correct form of one of the verbs in each word pool. There are three paragraphs to complete.
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Tom Sawyer
This instructional activity kicks off with a PowerPoint presentation on Mark Twain. Learners examine the dialect, slang, viewpoint and setting. Then use e-mail to address three topics utilizing comprehension, synthesis, and evaluation...
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Silly Story Starters
Fifth graders brainstorm some ideas for each of the columns. As they call them out, write some on the sticky notes until each sticky note is used for each column They stay in the same groups; have each group draw one sticky note from...
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ESL: Body Parts Matching
Match drawings of basic body parts with their names. A handy tool for teachers of beginning ELLs.
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ESOL Basic numbers and SHapes
Students review then recognize the letters A-Z both uppercase and lowercase and the numbers 0-100. They practice letters orally then play a letter writing game and number game as a class.
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A Day in the Life of a Deminer
Students acquire basic insight into the process of demining and beccome aware of risks specific to this type of work. They play games, and role-play based on information they've acquired through the materials imbedded in this plan about...